I work in the produce department at my local Kroger. It's a cool job, well, most of the time. Every week we have to do back stock review with our croutons, salad dressings, dips, and juice. My biggest problem is my manager orders too much stuff and I have loads of back stock on our shelves in the cooler and on green carts. The last time I did the review, it took me over two hours to get all of it done and over with. I find product on the shelves that other employees do not mark down. Does anyone have any problems with this in their produce departments?
LoL, Ha HA,ha ha Im really sorry im laughing, I was reading your post and busted out laughing. The way you explain your post Its the same **** picture of my store, I work in produce. although I do not do what you do in produce, I work in a very high volume and I mean @ss kicking 24 hour 3 year old store. And your right! produce can be fun , .
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tell your store manager. if they want to get the amount of backstock down, the person who does the ordering - the one who should be scanning the backstock!
I work in dairy and it takes me about 30mins to do butter, cheese, biscuits. It would probobly take me about 1hr 15 mins to do everything else. We dont have selves anymore we keep everything on wheels and never have more than 3 wheels, with the excception of yogurt and juice.
sounds like someone needs to get your produce under control.
Thanks, at least someone feels my pain. I cannot stand lazy employees, or department heads who don't know how to order properly. It's just not the way it's supposed to be, but that's life at Kroger.
Doing back stock reviews plus working some load days alone and being called to 1 plus one and do all the milk and eggs filling alone as well as cooler and what load you could work up after breaking them down and tryingto keep up with codes markdowns and soils and cleaning that their is no time to do..... Went back up front.
My question is, is your produce manager manually ordering too much product, or is this a case of the produce manager not reviewing the order before it transmits?
It's like that in the bakery deli/bakery department where I work. I usually put away the frozen order so I pretty much know what we have and don't have. Our new deli manager is terrible about ordering too much product. We have four of those green u-boat trucks in our freezer and two more in the back. Hello? we get an order in everyday. Unless you're putting it out on the shelf that day or the next, don't order it. Also, if you've ordered something and it doesn't all go out don't order it again. For example, she'll order a whole bunch of pudding cakes even though we'll still have at least a case of each in the freezer. Why?
If your division has "Auto Calculated Mins", this could be the problem of receiving too much product. Need to go to the ISP and look over, and adjust quantities if needed before the order closes and transmits.
